Thursday, May 17, 2012

2016: A Utopian Odyssey

The year is 2016. And this is what Change has wrought.

Cars are restricted in size and must meet stringent emissions and fuel consumption regulations. 40% of all cars are required to be electric, and are frequently found by the side of the road because of battery issues. We're still getting used to electric cars and how long they take to charge.

Fuel prices are triple what they were just a few years ago, thanks to drilling prohibitions and massive, new taxes. Oil drilling is banned in the United States, and rigs sit idle atop the nation's vast treasure trove of oil and natural gas. This is the price we must pay in order to prevent global warming.

Because of high auto and energy costs, mass transit is the only option available to many citizens. In cities, electric subway cars are packed full from early morning to late at night.

Government officials, however, are given the option of receiving free vehicles at taxpayer expense. All cars must be painted white, because other colors of paint can result in the release of excess greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.

Tax policies encourage citizens to live in carefully planned housing complexes, high-rise condos and apartments, which consume less of the country's precious energy supplies.

"Smart-grid" technologies meter energy usage down to the individual family, pricing it by time-of-day and number of persons in the household. Power can be cut off to a household if government limits are exceeded. Families with elderly or special needs members, however, can petition the federal government for extra energy credits. Blackouts and brownouts, however, are typical during the summers because most coal-burning was regulated out of existence by the EPA.

All lighting systems in residential housing units are required to use compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). These lamps, though they contain toxic levels of mercury, help reduce energy consumption and help prevent global warming.

Each housing unit must use a special, water-saving sink-toilet. They recapture the sink's waste water into the toilet tank because fresh water is increasingly expensive.

Because of environmental regulations and government mandates, access to clean water is restricted. Before water is ever tapped for human consumption, detailed reviews -- often lasting many years -- are required to assess the impact on every possible animal species.

As for immigration policy, we have truly become an enlightened country. Open borders and streamlined paths to full citizenship now ensure a lasting Democrat majority.

It is true that open borders have resulted in various man-made disasters. For example, the tragic series of suicide bombings we endured at Texas amusement parks last year. But those setbacks are a small price to pay so that we can be recognized as citizens of the world.

It's also true that jobs are scarce, but if you can find one you will have a great advantage. When you are hired, you will automatically become a member of a union, which will protect your rights, secure your retirement benefits, set your pay, prescribe career advancement, and take care of negotiating all of the details with corporate bosses.

As for schools, all teachers are unionized, of course, which ensures that children are taught consistently, with government-approved materials. Home-schooling was outlawed in 2012 to give children the opportunity to learn in government-approved environments.

It's true that union dues are a flat 5% of gross income, but that's a pittance compared to federal, state and local taxes, which add up to 60% for most of us.

Government workers and college professors only pay 40% in taxes in recognition of their sacrifices for the public good. Nearly half of all workers are employed by government at the federal, state or local levels.

Health care is free, if you can find a general practitioner. If referred to a specialist, your wait may be six months or longer. You can elect to fly abroad for treatment if you can't wait, but since health care is free in the U.S. (and private doctors are banned), most elect to wait.

Retirees have a very high quality of life. However, due to rules prescribed by the Federal Health Board, if you are over 72 years of age, you may not receive treatment for cancer, heart disease and other maladies because those services are reserved for younger, healthier patients. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm's brother, proscribed this in his "whole life" mandate for cost-containment reasons.

It's true that many folks seem poorer, have less job opportunities, aren't as happy or as healthy, are less educated, and -- I'll say it -- less free.

But that's what we voted for when we voted for change.

We were voting for an ideal, a Utopia, a vision of equality. And now that we're entering President Barack Obama's third term in office, many would say we've achieved it.


Exclusive: Underexposed President Plans More TV Appearances

The President's recent poll numbers are disturbing for Democrats, to say the least. Obama's typical reaction to bad numbers is to assume he's underexposed. And Biff Spackle has the world exclusive: like his recent appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The View, the President plans cameos on "non-traditional" cable outlets. Look for "special appearances" by the President on the following shows:

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL

CARTOON NETWORK

ANIMAL PLANET

JUDGE JUDY

BARACK AND KATE PLUS EIGHT


According to White House insiders, multiple appearances on these channels should greatly increase the president's popularity numbers.


Democrat Fist Bump


Image: Personal Litmus, hat tip: Bob McCarty.


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Obama's Literary Agency: Obama no longer a birther, we made a boo-boo 21 years ago, which we just remembered like it was yesterday

It took only a few hours for President Obama's literary agency to disavow today's revelation of its 1991 bio of young Barack, which claimed the author had been born in Kenya.

Taegan Goddard, the laughably left-wing "reporter" and unofficial DNC spokesman, is a client of the same agency. He contacted the firm's owner, who instantly recalled the exact situation 21 years ago that resulted in this unfortunate typographic error. And I'm sure that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that President Obama remains a client.

Breitbart News reports on a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency which describes the author as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."

Miriam Goderich issued the following statement to Political Wire:

"You're undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me -- an agency assistant at the time. There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more."

Full disclosure: I am a client of the same literary agency.

As an aside, Goddard's PoliticalWire website is included in the BadBlue.com news service solely for purposes of comic relief.

Best I can tell, PoliticalWire's mission statement is to spin bad news for Obama in the most mendacious ways imaginable. As for good news -- oh, wait. Obama's the president. We appear to be sorely lacking in good news. Unless you count the Bin Laden hit.

And capping Bin Laden required, oh, years of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs), terrorist wiretaps, and rendition -- all tactics opposed by President Brave Sir Robin. Which makes Obama's attempt to claim credit for the operation roughly equivalent to President Nixon, uhm, "spiking the football" after the Apollo 11 moon landing.


Hat tip: Scott.

Tasty: Michigan teen bites into finger while eating an Arby's sandwich. The problem? The finger wasn't his.

I lost my appetite a couple of moments ago after reading the following KTRK-TV report:

A Michigan teen made a gristly [sic] discovery after biting into an Arby's junior roast beef sandwich.

Ryan Hart said he had nearly polished off his sandwich last Friday when he bit into something tough to chew that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out.

Turns out it tasted like finger. The fleshy pad of an unfortunate employee's finger, apparently.

"I was like, `That (has) to be a finger,"' Hart, 14, told the Jackson Citizen Patriot on Wednesday. "I was about to puke. ... It was just nasty."

The employee apparently cut her finger on a meat slicer and left her station without immediately telling anyone, said Steve Hall, the environmental health director for the Jackson County health department. Her co-workers continued filling orders before they became aware of what happened, he said.

John Gray, a spokesman for Atlanta-based Arby's, released a statement Wednesday apologizing for what he described as an isolated and "unfortunate incident." He said Arby's is still investigating, but has determined that the Jackson workers shut down food production as soon as they found out what happened and thoroughly cleaned and sanitized the restaurant.

...Ryan's mother, Jamie Vail, was incredulous. She and her friend, Joe Wheaton, had taken Ryan and his 11-year-old brother to the Arby's drive-through, and she said she thought her son was joking when he exclaimed he had found a piece of a finger in his sandwich... "Somebody loses a finger, and you keep sending food out the window? I can't believe that," said Vail. She and Wheaton said the severed section was about an eighth to a quarter-inch thick and at least one inch long.

Arby's slogan used to be "It's Good Mood Food"... but perhaps it should be "It's Good Finger Food" instead.

Sorry, it's the best I could come up with now that I have an upset stomach.


Hat tip: BadBlue.com.

Surprise! Barack Obama was a 'birther'

Earlier today, Breitbart.com revealed that Barack Obama's literary agency pitched an autobiography to publishers claiming an especially exotic heritage for the young author. Namely, that Obama was born in Kenya.

What's been missed in much of the resulting kerfuffle is this: Acton & Dystel, Obama's agency, didn't make up the bio on its own. They almost certainly received the critical details from Mr. Obama himself.

Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."

The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel...

Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.

...The errant Obama biography in the Acton & Dystel booklet does not contradict the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate. Moreover, several contemporaneous accounts of Obama’s background describe Obama as having been born in Hawaii.

The biography does, however, fit a pattern in which Obama--or the people representing and supporting him--manipulate his public persona.

David Maraniss's forthcoming biography of Obama has reportedly confirmed, for example, that a girlfriend Obama described in Dreams from My Father was, in fact, an amalgam of several separate individuals.

To be clear, Andrew Breitbart was not a "birther", nor am I.

What is clear, however, is Obama's willingness to play fast-and-loose with the facts in order to sell his books and advance his career. My hunch: Obama crafted the book deal bio in order to make his background appear more worldly: a Kenyan birthplace is certainly more exotic than a Hawaiian one.

What's hilarious about this entire debacle is that it proves Barack Obama was a 'birther'.


Larwyn's Linx: Gallup: Historical Data Point to Massive Obama Repudiation in November

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Nation

Gallup Data Shows Massive Obama Repudiation in November: AmPow
Nebraska and Indiana: Ace
MoveOn.org Claims DNC Has Pulled Out of WI Recall Race: FreeWorks

53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida: Adams
Expect the Institutionalized “progressive” Left to Come Out in Force: RWN
ICE Agents Say Obama's Claim of Fewer Illegals are Bogus: Lid

Economy

610 to nothing: Hot Air
"We Are About To Have Another 2008-Style Crisis": Martenson
The Difference Between GM and Ford: P&F

Walker Opens Six Point Can of Whoop AssIn Latest Poll: Ace
Bank Run in Greece = DJIA Rises?: RSM
Romney: Imagine if Uncle Sam designed a cell phone…: Peth

First Shoe Drops: Catholic School Drops ObamaCare: IBD
L.A. Food Stamp Usage Rising As Cali's Budget Gap Blows Out: Insider
Obamacare CO-OPs Needlessly Risk Taxpayer Money: Foundry

Scandal Central

Black Voices On Pres. Obama’s Gay Marriage Stance: RWN
Sharpton slams African-American pastors for dumping Obama: Breitbart
Book: Michelle Wanted a Divorce, Barack Wanted to Kill Himself: Waznmentobe

Media

Mark Levin calls out Boehner over plan to keep ‘popular’ parts of ObamaCare: Scoop
Proggies Want to Tell Us What’s Appropriate: ConCom
Jeremiah Wright: Obama Has Done Nothing For The Black Community: WZ

War! — The New Media & Old Media Battle for America: CDN
Ameritopia: Mark Levin Discusses the Utopian Unmaking of America: Instapundit
Cherokee genealogist to Elizabeth Warren — Tell the truth: LI

Politico Is Officially Part Of Team Obama: Ace
Insults Help Democrats Defeat Rich, Religious Nut, Racist, Redneck Republicans: AT
Obama Carolina Convention Plans Going Awry for Democrats: Bloomberg (the news service, not the idiot mayor)

World

Former State Department Official Goes Nuclear on Obama and Hillary: Beacon
Wonderful: Democrats, RINOs support 'Law of the Sea' Global Wealth Redestribution Treaty: NoisyRm
Experts Try to Chart Path for Exit From Currency: WSJ

Israel and Iran: The Grounds for an Israeli Attack: Elliot Abrams
US Ambassador to Israel: 'The military option against Iran isn't just possible, it's ready": Matzav
FBI: One person responsible for 380 suspicious powder letters: KTRK-TV Houston

Mayo Clinic removes Doctor, Clitorectomy supporter, who called FGM an "honor for women": Atlas
Ezra Levant: So long sharia law in Kansas!: NoisyRm
Chinese boats seized by North Koreans in rare public spat: Reuters

Sci-Tech

Google Shifts Tack on Android: WSJ
Facebook IPO: As insiders signal they will unload, public wonders whether there’s something wrong: WaPo
Pinterest Raises $100 Million With $1.5 Billion Valuation: WSJ

Cornucopia

Obama’s 3rd Autobiography: Available Now @ whitehouse.gov: MOTUS
Hey, what’s more popular than the Obama budget? Top 15 tweets: Twitchy
Combat vets, NFL players may share brain injury: ArmyTimes

Image: Via Business Insider
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QOTD: "Israel would ... be taking a very great gamble to think that the United States will save it from Iran’s nukes." --Elliot Abrams

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

"Follow me, into the futu --" ***Ka-Thwack-Bumpity-Bumpity-Splash-Ka-Shunk!!!!!!!!!***


Hat tips: Papa B and The Bad.

The Three Charts That Bode Ill for the Democrat-Media Complex

From journalism's version of Paul Ryan, James Pethokoukis, comes this pithy economic update:

Vice President Joe Biden is telling Ohio voters today that “things really are starting to come back.”

Is one of those “things” the U.S. economy? Because as the following three charts show, the U.S. economy is struggling through an abysmal recovery not really worth the name:

1. Sickly Economic Growth


2. Falling Real Wages


3. A Shrunken Labor Force


[...But] perhaps President Obama can somehow argue things are going about as well as can be expected after a financial crisis. Then again, a recent CBS-New York Times poll found that 67% of Americans think the economy is “bad” and gave Mitt Romney a 46-43 lead over the president.

So far voters don’t seem to be really buying Biden’s — or Obama’s — comeback story. They may not have seen these three charts, but they sure are feeling them, unfortunately, in their everyday lives. From Gallup:<


There is no recovery, nor will there be one as long as this ego-maniacal ideologue remains in office.


Hat tip: BadBlue.com.

"Update From International Banking Source"

Unverified, but plausible.

May 15, 2012

Steve,

The warning shots have begun. I will tell you that this week has been heavy in the financial world, as I predicted that it would be from my last update... The reverberations of the JP Morgan $2 Billion dollar derivative trade loss is playing out and the fissures have finally began to manifest on the foundations of the world market. What you will see in the next few weeks is continued talks and hearings about financial regulations and other such stall tactics. This is all a cover and a ruse. The $2 billion dollar loss is just a smoke screen to further hide the truth of the $2 billion loss from MF Global. Which I will tell you from my sources [is that] Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan Chase were the sole beneficiaries of that "loss" . In truth, JP Morgan has taken delivery and full liquidation of MF Global assets, thus the $2 billion derivative loss is no big deal for the following reasons:

1. Americans and most MSM talking heads do not understand derivatives, thus it is easy to throw out cliches, axioms and jargon with cries for more regulations. Thus Dimon and his cronies at JPM know that they will skate free from all litigation. After all, he was once again voted in as CEO by the JPM board. Why? Because he covered the loss of JPM trades with MF Global's "missing" $2 billion. JPM knew about the derivative loss for months.

2. The $2 billion loss will cause the needed outcry from America's Banker (Dimon) to call for more power that will favor the Too Big To Fails (TBTF) Banks. This will allow them to further prop up the crumbling economy just long enough that it will allow them to further liquidate and conglomerate America's wealth into fewer and fewer hands. All this before the coming Euro collapse which will occur this winter. This $2 billion JPM trade loss is the perfect catalyst needed by the MSM to keep the ruse and distraction going.

Greece has gone past the point of no return and RBS, UBS, Satander and SG are all implementing the final contingency plans for a Euro withdrawal and Drachma resurgence. This will occur very quickly creating hyper-velocity and massive Euro bond dumps the likes of which we have never seen. The actions of Greece will inspire austerity-strapped Italy, Spain and Portugal to do the same. France will tailspin as the French have the greatest exposure to this coming crisis[, more] than any other nation in the Eurozone. Look for Hollande to move for a Euro exit as well due to overwhelming pressure from his far left socialist party. Hollande has to comply, [and] if he does not it would be political suicide.


Same goes for Germany, Merkel's party lost BIG in Germany's largest state North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), which way NRW goes, so goes the rest of Germany. Anti-Euro sentiment is strong and it can not be stopped no matter what the bankers are doing.

The Euro is on it's last legs [and] I do not see this currency continuing past 2013. There will be a quick dash to the dollar as a security blanket but that too will fail once the American derivative exposure can no longer be hidden. The final straw that will bring down this house of cards will be the $200-$300 trillion of American derivative exposure. The derivative bubble will pop.

What Dimon and JPM has signaled to the world elites and bankers in code is simply this... "It's time to get out of Dodge."

Best Regards,

V.

Via: Steve and Rolls Report.

Rushmore, redesigned

In August of 2008, I anticipated the ego-maniacal nature of one Barack Milhaus Obama and proposed the following redesign of Mt. Rushmore.


But I underestimated our beloved president's narcissism. With word that even White House presidential biographies have been modified to include references to Dear Leader, the brilliant SWeasel proposed a new, "fundamentally transformed" version of Rushmore.


I'd prefer just about anything, even the little-known rear view of Mt. Rushmore, to either of the previous two proposals.



"Profiles in Courage: The Bin Laden Hit", by President Barack Obama

To be fair, this is not my work. And no one on Journolist seems to know who created this brilliant piece, but I've now received it from three different people. If you are the author, please email me for full credit, linkage, and job offers (while the "Junior Cub Reporter IV" position isn't prestigious, it is low-paying).











Larwyn's Linx: Al-Qaeda Infiltrator's Cover Blown for Obama Campaign's Election Year Politics

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Nation

Al-Qaeda Infiltrator's Cover Blown for Election Year Politics: Tatler
Too Big To Manage: Cato
Obama Inserts Himself Into Bios of Past Presidents: Breitbart

The Stupid Party: FPM
The DNC seems to be sitting out the Wisconsin recall: Lane
Panic: Obama campaign already coming off the rails: Breitbart

Soros Hosts Left-Wing Fundraising Summit in Miami: Beacon
Obama Forces First Catholic College to Drop Insurance: LifeNews
Most transparent campaign evah confiscates cell phones: Twitchy

Economy

Social Security's Implosion Is Accelerating Under Obama: Blumer
The fiscal cliff is like a nasty, double-diamond ski slope: Peth
Privatize the Postal Service: ObjStd

The worst doctors and the worst hospitals in the world: Wolf
Obama's Bad Businessmen: Beacon
The Antidote to Pessimism: the Free Market Works: Elephant

Scandal Central

Hold Holder in Contempt: Times
Justice Rejects Lawmakers’ Complaints on Probe of ‘Fast and Furious’: WSJ
Socialist Sanders Goes Ballistic On Reporter While Defending Non-Existent Senate Budget: Breitbart

Climate & Energy

Projected Closing of Coal Plants Under New EPA Regulations: RCE
Wind farm scam a huge cover-up: Australian
Behold The Ecotard Singularity…: Soylent (NSFW)

Media

A Censored Race War: Sowell
Boston Globe buries correction of Elizabeth Warren 1/32 Cherokee claim: LI
Fauxcahontas: Elizabeth Warren heralded as ‘Harvard’s first woman of color’; Hilarity ensues: Twitchy

Obama’s Devastating CBS-New York Times Poll Results: HayRide
Autopsy Reveals Trayvon Martin Had Bloody Knuckles When He Died: GWP
More Narrative Fail: Autopsy Reveals Trayvon Martin Had Bloody Knuckles When He Died: MenRec

Things That Should Be Obvious: Q&O
The Democrats Train to be Race-Baiters: RS
Team Obama Flips Out Over Mildly Adverse NYT Poll: Power Line

World

Cradle to Grave Suicide: RWN
Jew assaulted at British University for filming public anti-Israel event: Atlas
Greece's Simitis Sees 'Catastrophe' If Nation Exits Euro: SFGate

Military Officials: Nearly $2 million in guns, combat gear sold to gangs: Bruce
Spain in Deep, Deep, Deep Trouble: Mish
Facebook’s Saverin May Save $67 Million on U.S. Tax Bill: Bloomberg

Sci-Tech

The Best Application of Gamification I have Seen To Date: InsideTMT
Krauthammer: Just say no to letting the police use drones: Hot Air
Benefits of dragon fruit: WABC-7

Cornucopia

Obama In History: Beacon
We Have Already Established WHAT You Are…: Koch's Tour
The TCOTS Six Days Of Cheesecake: Tuesday: Camp o' the Saints (NSFW)

Image: iOwnTheWorld
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QOTD: "The U.S. had prepared an air strike to support the Kurds and repel Saddam’s Republican Guard forces in northern Iraq. At this day, at the golf tournament, I started receiving phone calls from Sandy Berger—who was, at the time, the National Security Council Advisor—asking for President Clinton to go ahead and authorize this attack to repel Saddam’s forces, as they were really massacring thousands and thousands of Kurds in the northern part of Iraq. I approached President Clinton on three occasions at this golf tournament to ask him for the go-ahead to launch this attack. We had Air Force fighters in the air, ready to drop bombs and to repel Saddam’s forces, and on three occasions, President Clinton could not be bothered to take the phone call from Sandy Berger. So, on three occasions I approached the President, he brushed me off—he wanted to watch the golf tournament. So I saw, really, for the first time, the dereliction of duty, as it were, by President Clinton not being able—not being willing to take the phone call while thousands and thousands of Kurds were being slaughtered by Saddam Hussein. That was really my first insight.

…we had at least eight times, up to ten times that I recall, that we had a chance to either capture or kill Osama bin Laden. And on every single occasion, President Clinton chose to pass. I believe, quite frankly and honestly, that 9/11 was the responsibility—I put the blame for 9/11 at the feet of President Bill Clinton. I think he had many opportunities to take out bin Laden, to either capture him or kill him, and chose, every single time, not to pull the trigger. The movie—the series—The Path to 9/11 very accurately shows that the phone calls went all the way up to President Clinton, from Sandy Berger, and Clinton chose not to pull the trigger. Again, I think that’s a very accurate representation of what happened, and I think President Bill Clinton was responsible for 9/11." --Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton